Chapter 23: Buying Books
There are a lot of people who come here on weekends, so Ling's mother went to buy two tickets, and when she arrived at the door, she handed the tickets to the staff and squeezed in through the small door on the side. The interior of the cathedral was extremely ornate and magnificent, and Ling Xiaoxiao looked at it with her mouth open in amazement, and she found that her barren words could not describe this kind of luxury.
The brick-red dome is painted with stories from the Bible, and the bell tower on the top of the main entrance is hung with 1 large, 6 small and 7 music clocks. The walls are surrounded by elaborate frescoes made of colorful mosaics, and the high side windows are covered with hand-painted oil paintings documenting the story of Jesus.
The long corridor inside the church leads to the end of the road where you can see two huge sculptures, one of Jesus and the other of the Virgin Mary. There are many pamphlets on the tables next to the hallway, which visitors can pick up on their own.
"Da Bao'er, it's too beautiful here." Mother Ling took Ling Xiaoxiao's hand, and only this sentence was left in her mouth repeatedly.
"It's beautiful." Ling Xiaoxiao looked at everything in front of her, she really didn't lose her heart and thought that she must come once, it was really different, she would have to go to Europe to visit more churches when she had the opportunity in the future.
The two of them went inside and outside the church, as well as the enlarged annex building, and then walked out unsatisfied. As she passed by, Ling Xiaoxiao suddenly felt that the back figure in the past was very familiar, she looked back and found that the other party had already walked into the church.
"Zizhuo, what's wrong?" Yue Pingjun saw that his friend suddenly stopped and asked suspiciously.
"It's okay, let's go." The tall and handsome young man paused, and then walked inside.
If Ling Xiaoxiao heard this voice, she would definitely be able to recognize that this was the voice that had haunted her dreams, but it was slightly greener than she had in her impression, and it had the unique low and hoarse nature of an adolescent teenager.
Coming out of the church, the mother and daughter were already hungry, and there were many time-honored restaurants on the pedestrian street, but the prices were not cheap, and the mother and daughter went back to the guest house to find a small noodle restaurant and ate a bowl of ramen alone. Ling's mother's train was five o'clock in the afternoon, and it was still early to eat, so she accompanied Ling Xiaoxiao to the bookstore.
The Xinhua Bookstore in Bincheng is huge, with a total of five floors, and above the sixth floor are several publishing houses in the province. On the first floor, there are mainly some social science books and bestsellers, and chicken soup literature accounts for the majority of bestsellers. Ling Xiaoxiao felt that her heart was very strong and she didn't need to drink soup, so she took Ling's mother directly to the third floor.
The third floor is teaching and auxiliary books and professional books, and Ling Xiaoxiao directly found the third junior high school area according to the prompts of the signs. The area of books in the third grade of junior high school alone is already equivalent to that of the Xinhua bookstore in their county.
Science tutorial books are the focus of this book purchase, she is going to look along the side of the bookshelf little by little, there is a series of tutorial books on a promotional table next to the bookshelf, all subjects of the high school entrance examination, and the poster on the side is written in exaggerated font: Bincheng No. 8 Middle School special tutorial textbook.
Ling Xiaoxiao picked up a math tutorial book with interest and opened it, and found that the exercises in it were indeed explained in detail, and the typical question types would be accompanied by solution ideas and divergent thinking prompts. This tutorial book is very good!
Put down the math tutoring, she picked up a physics tutoring and flipped through it, the explanation method is as detailed as the math tutoring, the thinking is clear, turn to the pressure special project they are tangled with, the question types in their homework are all here, and the typical exercises are given a detailed solution process, and there are special explanations, which are easier to understand than what they were taught in the old high class.
That's what she wants! Ling Xiaoxiao held the book and felt a stir in her heart, with this set of tutoring books, she believed that she would definitely improve a lot in the next two unified examinations.
The educational resources in the provincial capital are much richer than those in their county, and if the middle school in the county can also use such a tutoring book to do special tutoring for the third year of junior high school, then the county's high school entrance examination results will not be so far from the junior high school of the three high schools.
Ling Xiaoxiao picked up three sets of this series of tutoring books and put them in the basket, originally she thought it would take a long time to find the books, but she didn't expect to complete the main task as soon as she came up. She then had a lot of time to pick out literary books and English original books.
Ling's mother couldn't help but grin when she saw her daughter pick out the book so quickly, since her daughter had appendicitis surgery in the summer vacation, it was like a different person, she got up every day to run, cook, and read, and she was not self-disciplined. Now the neighbors who see her praise her for their daughter's sensibility, which makes her feel super face-saving. Now that her daughter is so interested in studying, if she can really be admitted to Bincheng No. 8 Middle School, she and her father can wake up happily in their dreams.
The original English texts are more difficult to pick than Ling Xiaoxiao imagined, most of the original texts are complex sentences, mixed with slang, and have a large vocabulary. She has a poor foundation in English, and she can't even read the preface and introduction after reading many books.
Picking left and right, I finally picked out an English original novel, and looked at the time, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and it was time to take Ling's mother back to the guest house to take her luggage to the train station.
Ling's mother checked out the books she picked out at the cashier, and the prices of these sets of tutoring books were not low, and Ling's mother's three big solidarity were used. But she doesn't feel distressed, and the money she makes is for her daughter. found a plastic rope and tied the books, then carried the books and took Ling Xiaoxiao all the way back to the guest house.
Ling's mother was very worried that Ling Xiaoxiao lived here alone, so she explained it repeatedly, and stuffed two hundred yuan in Ling Xiaoxiao's pocket, and then took her luggage and went to the train station.
As soon as Ling's mother left, Ling Xiaoxiao saw that it was still early, so she was ready to go to the bookstore again. When I arrived at the door of the guest house, the aunt who checked them in in the morning was sitting next to the door heating and reading the newspaper, and saw Ling Xiaoxiao come down and greeted her warmly: "Little girl, I heard what your mother said, don't worry, Aunt will be on duty tonight and lock the door tightly, you can rest assured that you can sleep well, ah!" ”
The simple words made Ling Xiaoxiao's heart warm, looking at the crow's feet in the corners of her aunt's eyes, she began to feel cute, she walked over briskly and said with a smile: "Thank you, Auntie, I can rest assured that I will not be afraid." ”
"Don't worry, our Bincheng security is very good, and besides, there is a police station in front of our oil guest house, and the thugs don't dare to come here to make trouble." The aunt said proudly: "Little girl, are you going out again?" ”
"I want to go to Xinhua Bookstore again to buy some books, it's not easy to come once, and I'm going to buy more suitable books to take home." Ling Xiaoxiao stood there and replied politely.
"Then go quickly, the bookstore closes at five o'clock, it closes early in winter, you close the door and come back, you have to pay more attention to safety when it gets dark early." Aunt was very enthusiastic to explain to Ling Xiaoxiao, Ling Xiaoxiao nodded obediently and said that she must come back before dark and pushed the door and walked out.